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1.8.9.0 2024-05-19
- Fix: Netflix: Some content would result in failure to recieve the playlist
- Fix: Amazon audio only stereo in some regions
- Fix: added MP4 encryption scheme PIFF
- Fix: Youtube - minor changes to the site caused download failure
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.8.0 beta 2024-04-25
- Fix: WOW: Protocol updates, service updates
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.7.0 2024-04-06
- Fix: AppleTV+: some titles would fail with error 404
1.8.6.0 2024-03-19
- Fix: Max: site updates caused failure to setup session
- Fix: Linux: ChookieThief should work with Firefox installations via snap now
- some minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.8.5.0 2024-03-12
- Fix: Prime: changes in protocol caused season selector to be greyed out
- Fix: WOW: Protocol updates (empty page)
- some minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.8.4.0 2024-03-04
- Changed: new max should now work in South America / Caribbean area
- Fix: Prime: workaround for download button could cause endless refresh cycles
- Fix: Paramount: 403 error when logging in
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.3.2 beta 2024-02-27
Changed: new max should now work in South America / Caribbean area
1.8.3.1 beta 2024-02-16
- Fix: Prime: workaround for download button could cause endless refresh cycles
1.8.3.0 beta 2024-02-16
- Fix: Prime: implemented workaround for download button not updating for some users
- Fix: Disney: detect incorrectly entered PIN and allow retry
- Fix: some series were listed with incorrect season numbering
- Improved: Rakuten: 1080p available on many titles
- many minor changes and improvements
1.8.2.1 beta 2024-02-13
Fix: some series were listed with incorrect season numbering
Improved: Rakuten: 1080p available on many titles
1.8.2.0 2024-02-13
- Changed: Netflix now supports the CookieThief option after an unsuccessful login attempt (e.g. due to
reCAPTCHA failing)
- Fix: Prime: application exception when retrieving a playlist times out. Increased timeout and now
fail the download instead of crashing on timeout
- Fix: Netflix: adapted to changes in login procedure
- Improved: optimized processing of huge MPD files, now significantly faster
- updated languages
1.8.1.1 beta 2024-02-13
- Fix: Prime: application exception when retrieving a playlist times out. Increased timeout and now
fail the download instead of crashing on timeout
- Fix: Netflix: adapted to changes in login procedure
- Improved: optimized processing of huge MPD files, now significantly faster
- updated languages
1.8.1.0 2024-02-01
- Fix: Amazon didn't work properly in some regions
- Fix: Disney: misintepretation if maturity rating in some cases (resulted in missing adult/mature content)
- Fix: Netflix: still SD, but newer content should at least be available again
- Improved: optimizations on protocol buffer operations
- Fix: RTL+: some videos would error out at the end, though the resulting video was fine
(miscalculation of fragment count)
- Improved: RTL+: added CDN rotation, because the main gateway occasionally seems to be overloaded
- Improved: RTL+: allow HD content
- many minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.8.0.5 beta 2024-01-30
Fix: Disney: misintepretation if maturity rating in some cases (resulted in missing adult/mature content)
Fix: Netflix: still SD, but newer content should at least be available again
updated languages
1.8.0.4 beta 2024-01-29
Improved: optimizations on protocol buffer operations
Fix: RTL+: some videos would error out at the end, though the resulting video was fine
(miscalculation of fragment count)
Improved: RTL+: added CDN rotation, because the main gateway occasionally seems to be overloaded
updated languages
1.8.0.3 beta 2024-01-25
Improved: RTL+: allow HD content
updated languages
1.8.0.2 2024-01-22
- Fix: RTL+: show all episodes of a season (were truncated at 5)
- Fix: Prime: show all episodes of a season (were truncated at 25)
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.0.1 2024-01-19
- Hotfix: adapted to work with changed Amazon database structure
note: it is possible, that some titles don't work as usual, please notify us (forum/contact)
- Fix: RTL+: some titles wouldn't download
- Fix: cosmetic fix for misidentified Season numbers
1.8.0.0 2024-01-18
- New: provider RTL+ (Germany)
- New: added support for avif image formats
- Fix: max: embedded subtitles shifted at segmentation-discontinuity (became out of sync)
- Fix: max: segmented subtitles partly missing
- Fix: determine correct key id with some uncommon mpd formats (Joyn)
- Improved: Prime: display dialog boost audio tracks
- many minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.7.2.2 beta 2024-01-06
Fix: max: segmented subtitles partly missing
Improved: Prime: display dialog boost audio tracks
updated languages
1.7.2.1 2024-01-04
Fix: determine correct key id with some uncommon mpd formats (Joyn)
Fix: max segmented subtitle retrieval (adjust for presentation time start offset)
some minor changes and improvements
1.7.2.0 2023-12-27
- Fix: Disney crashed in some instances
- some minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.7.1.0 2023-12-12
- Fix: Wow: adapt to slight protocol changes
- New: added provider AppleTV+ (SD only, sorry)
- Fix: from beta: AppleTV+ device limit exceeded problem should be fixed
- Improved: informative message boxes, when provider rejects a download to to VPN or content status
- Improved: support for some malformed subtitle data
- Fix: Disney: protocol changes
- New: added support for cbcs encrypted content
- some minor changes
1.7.0.0 2023-12-04
- Fix: Linux: added libraries to support Debian 12
- Fix: Linux: mysql dependencies
- New: CookieThief (adopt login session from Firefox/Chrom/Edge)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.9.0 2023-11-27
- Change: add ".temp" extension to files during download
- Fix: Paramount: titles, espectially TV shows with designed advert-breaks were only partially downloaded
- Fix: improved UI to work better with low resolution displays (1024x768 is roughly the lowest supported resolution)
- Workaround: Windows' proxy auto-configuration could stall startup, when the LAN is not setup for auto-configuration
- some minor improvements
- updated languages
1.6.8.0 2023-11-08
- New: Workaround for "VSO Downloader 6" destroying Windows' wininet settings, causing programs using
wininet (like AnyStream) to stop working
- Fix: Joyn Austria: adapt to changes in protocol (login failed)
- Fix: Joyn: not all episodes were shown, if a series has a mix of free and subscribed-only content
- some minor improvements
1.6.7.3 beta 2023-11-06
1.6.7.2 beta 2023-11-02
- Improved: Youtube: search for entire URL didn't work on all videos
- Fix: Disney: remove surplus audio on some titles
- some minor changes
1.6.7.1 beta 2023-10-26
- Fix: prime: proper handling of out-of-series extras (please verify)
- Improved: max: better quality
1.6.7.0 2023-10-25
- Fix: Netflix mostly back to HD
- New: persistent queue - the queue contents are stored on HDD and will be reloaded again when starting the application.
- Workaround: MacOS only: StreamFab will somehow block shared memory even after exiting, so that AnyStream fails to start
AnyStream now avoids shared memory and uses a different approach.
- Fix: pick up all individual segments of "Toy Story Funday Football"
- Workaround: MacOS only: disable right-click context menu for CEF Browser, as this would crash on MacOS
- Fix: Disney "Toy Story Funday Football" wouldn't download
- Fix: regression: Paramount, couldn't retrieve playlist for certain movies
- Fix: Amazon series with more than 200 episodes work, now
- New: add release year to file name templates
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.6.0 2023-09-22
- Improved: Joyn: add field to enter parental PIN
- Changed: show/hide download queue button moved to the bottom-right
- Fix: Linux: removed libtiff dependency
- Changed: max playlist processing. Now supports ad-subscriptions
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.5.0 2023-09-14
- New: added provider itvX (UK)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.4.3 beta 2023-09-14
- Fix: (regression) SSL connections didn't work on Linux in the previous two beta versions
1.6.4.2 beta 2023-09-13
- Fix: itvX: paid subscriptions weren't identified properly
- Workaround: itvX download sessions break when adding additional content
1.6.4.1 beta 2023-09-12
- New: added provider itvX (UK)
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.4.0 2023-09-07
- Improved: Joyn display more collections, improved navigation
- Fix: Hulu: adapted to protocol changes
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.3.0 2023-08-24
- Fix: Joyn: avoid duplicate episodes in list
- Fix: Joyn: gather more than 60 episodes per season
- Fix: Amazon: change in protocol limited episodes to 25 max.
- Workaround: added amazon CA certificates
- Fix: crash when logging out of some providers, while search results are being shown
- Fix: joyn sometimes episodes missing for registered Joyn users
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.2.0 2023-08-16
- New: added provider Joyn
- Fix: Cwtv: adapted to changes in protocol
- Fix: Prime: changed landing pages
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.1.0 2023-08-08
- Fix: fresh installs of AnyStream would download very slowly, if user didn't change the settings at least once
- Fix: Wow: some series didn't show (esp. Kids)
- Workaround: Prime: a rare condition, where Prime will not register properly and shows no
downloadable titles fixed
- Fix: Wow: titles, that are only available in SD couldn't be downloaded
- Improved: finalizing of downloaded files - speed slightly improved
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.0.0 2023-08-07
- New: added provider CWTV (US only)
- Improved: Amazon: support higher framerates > 30fps (esp. sports)
- Fix: Wow: previously unsupported subtitle format added
- Improved: Wow: session status more robust
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.9.0 2023-08-04
- New: added provider WowTV
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.8.0 2023-07-14
- Fix: proxy settings did not work for Prime under Linux and Mac
- Fix: improved robustness against Youtube randomness (occasional failed downloads)
- updated languages
1.5.7.0 2023-07-10
- New: added provider Peacock
- New: added provider Youtube (currently no accounts, only anonymous, only "regular" Youtube content)
- Fix: remove dependency on DX12, which snuck in with v1.5.6.1 excluding Win OS before v10
- Fix: Linux dependencies
- updated languages
1.5.6.7 beta 2023-07-09
- Fix: Peacock: avoid token expiry, while titles are sitting in the download queue
- Possible fix: Peacock login procedure more thorough, should fix the odd failure to login
1.5.6.6 beta 2023-07-08
- New: added provider Peacock
- updated languages
1.5.6.5 beta 2023-07-06
- Fix: adapted to changes in Youtube protocol
- updated languages
1.5.6.4 beta 2023-06-24
- Fix: adapted to changes in Youtube protocol
- updated languages
1.5.6.3 beta 2023-06-21 (Windows only)
- Fix: remove dependency on DX12, which snuck in with v1.5.6.1 excluding Win OS before v10
- Improved: Youtube subtitles removed html escapement
- Fix: Youtube long descriptions
1.5.6.2 beta 2023-06-19
- New: added provider Youtube (currently no accounts, only anonymous, only "regular" Youtube content)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.6.0 2023-06-07
- Fix: Hulu: add HEVC resolutions back
- Fix: added missing dependencies for newer Linux versions
- Fix: (regression) Hulu showing no tracks
- Fix: some max series failed to load the playlist
- Improved: (max) offer better audio quality
- Fix: max subtitles not working
- a few minor changes
1.5.5.0 2023-05-26
- New: added provider max (note: for US users, this replaces HBOmax, though in some other countries, HBOmax is still active)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.4.0 2023-05-06
- New: Linux and macOS releases
- Fix: (Prime) make some additional sub-items for live-events selectable/downloadable
- Fix: synopsis display size on macOS
- Change: moved some menu items into the application menu on macOS
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.2.3 2023-03-02
- Fix: regression Netflix subtitles not shown
- Updated languages
1.5.2.2 2023-03-01
- Workaround: for the "Prime dead season selector" phenomenon
- Updated languages
1.5.2.1 2023-03-01
- Fix: Prime: (regression) application exception with some titles
- Fix: Hulu: HEVC was not available for titles, that don't support EC3 audio
1.5.2.0 2023-02-28
- Improved: Prime auto-handling of codecs, depending on availability and DRM
- Improved: Hulu, audio quality
- Fix: regression - preferred video codec was not preselected
- Fix: Hulu sometimes offered resolutions, that are not available. Caused unplayable files.
- Fix: Netflix: deal more gracefully with abrupt DRM changes
- Updated languages
- many minor changes
1.5.1.0 2023-02-09
- Improved: Hulu, higher resolutions
- New: HEVC codec available (see settings -> providers)
- Changed: moved region settings for Prime to settings -> providers
- many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.5.0.0 2023-01-30
- Workaround: Netflix sometimes resulted in lower than available resolution when Netflix servers
are under high load. This should now be improved.
- Fix: application crash when queing Amazon downloads (bug introduced in v1.4.9.8)
- Improved: DRM system has been extensively rewritten and improved
- Fix: intermittent failures with bad internet connections
- Fix: Paramount: searching suppressed some results
- Fix: Paramount+: detect high server load responses and attempt to recover
- many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.4.9.5 2022-12-19
- Improved: DRM flexibility
- many minor changes and stability improvements
- Updated languages
1.4.9.0 2022-12-06
- Changed: added more download speeds to choose from
- Fix/Improved: auto-preselection of forced subtitles
- Fix: possible crash, when episodes in a series have inconsistent audio languages
- Workaround: Netflix series with no synopsis would be listed multiple times in the selection
- Fix (non-issue): Paramount: request only meaningful categories for display
- Improved: display expected video bitrate, if known
- many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.4.8.0 2022-11-24
- Fix: show subtitles and audio streams selectably and properly in QuickTime
(and likely other Apple products)
- Improved: forced automatic subtitle pre-selection (to match audio choices)
- Updated languages
1.4.7.0 2022-11-22
- Fix: Audio track limitation was effectively set to 3 - changed to 5
- Fix: a few language selection anomalies (behaviour of checkboxes)
- Improved: more Netflix titles in 1080p
- Change: allow downloading multiple audio tracks per title (presently up to 5)
- Improved: subtitle auto-preselection now honors forced vs. not forced languages
- Improved: audio preselection can be set to "prefer descriptive audio"
- Workaround: Prime: incorrectly coded "show all episodes" page would cause end endless loop (CSI NY Season 2)
Now breaking the vicious circle when detecting this behavior.
- many, many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.4.6.0 2022-11-09
- Fix: HBOMax: adapt to API changes
- Fix: Netflix: Japanese vertical subtitles now really properly displayed
Note: this currently only works for embedded subtitles, SRT subs will still
be displayed horizontally. A future version will have better support
for text subtitles
- Fix: properly remove nested formatting in subtitles
- Fix: Prime: some audio codecs weren't presented (especially descriptive audio)
- some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.4.5.0 2022-10-31
- Improved: most Netflix titles available in 1080p
- Fix: support DASH manifest with individual media urls per fragment
- Fix: Japanese vertical subtitles should display correctly (embedded subtitle selection required)
- Fix: Hulu: some titles could not be downloaded due to incorrect URL
- Fix: Hulu: empty main page showing for some
- Fix: Netflix: changing profiles no longer worked
- some minor fixes
- updated languages
1.4.4.0 2022-09-28
- Fix: adapt to changes in Netflix API
- some minor fixes
1.4.3.0 2022-09-22
- Fix: support some unencrypted Paramount content
- Fix: Amazon: certain live content replays would not work properly
- Fix: occasional crash when searching with low remaining internet bandwidth
- Fix: HBO crash when keys cannot be retrieved
- some minor fixes
1.4.2.1 2022-09-13
- Fix: Paramount: some "series" wouldn't show (specifically season-less series, like CBS news)
- Improved: auto-preset languages sometimes not consistent, due to non-standard language codes
- updated languages
1.4.2.0 2022-08-25
- Fix: (regression) detection of descriptive languages since playlist redesign
- Fix: Netflix: unavailable resolutions would show for some titles
- some minor fixes
- updated languages
1.4.1.0 2022-08-18
- Fix: crash, when a network error causes failure to retrieve a license
- Fix: HBO session timeout would fail downloads
- Fix: crash when rapidly changing search terms
- Improved: detect HBO franchise titles
- Workaround: renu
1.4.0.2 2022-07-22
- Hotfix: adapted to changes in the HBOmax-API
1.4.0.1 2022-07-20
- Hotfix: adapted to slight changes in the Paramount+-API
1.4.0.0 2022-07-13
- Improved: language code detection for some providers with non-standard behavior
- Fix: (regression in previous betas): queue entries were not automatically removed
- Fix: Prime series with many episodes - sometimes an episode was missing
- Fix: endless page reload loop with Prime series having many episodes
- Change: search button enabled for search terms shorter than 3 characters
- Change: scroll arrows only show/are active when the application has the window focus
- Fix: Prime series with many episodes caused AnyStream to seemingly "log out" the user by requesting unsecure (non-SSL) pages
- Improved: request less and larger fragments while downloading, might speed up the downloads in some cases
- Fix: Netflix attempt to select the same audio bitrate when downloading multiple episodes of a season via template
- Improved: Netflix: some very old titles weren't downloaded in HD, even though they could
- Improved: memory management
- Fix: Prime downloads in previous beta, a certain type of download would possibly result in oversize and consume memory
- Fix: some subtitles on Netflix were identified but not downloaded
- Change: Amazon Prime now using new Playlist implementation.
- several improvements
1.3.9.0 2022-07-01
- Fix: Disney: proper labeling of forced subtitles
- Fix: Rakuten: some srt subtitles couldn't be parsed
- Fix: occasional crash when thumbnails are delivered after a title is no longer on display (usually search results)
- Fix: some titles on Netflix with very small fragments stalled on startup
- Fix: srt files no longer export webvtt content (an option for exporting webvtt content may
be added at a later time)
- Paramount, HBO and Hulu now using a new unified playlist core
- Fix: HBO 32bit overflow when downloading movies > 2GB
- Fix/Workaround: Hulu, rare incident: can't acquire series information
- Improved: HBO playlists
- Fix: some titles on Netflix failed
- Improved: playlist handling for all providers
- Improved: display more downloadable content on Prime Video (some content was not available)
- many minor fixes
- updated languages
1.3.8.0 2022-06-17
- Fix: Rakuten, support "free to watch with Ads" Series
- Fix: Netflix, certain video's caused failures
- some minor fixes
1.3.7.0 2022-06-14
- Fix: block closing provider tabs which have pending downloads
- Improved: DRM
- Fix: Paramount search results, sometimes seasons were not found
- Fix: HBO occasional Recaptcha failure during login possibly less likely
- Fix: application crash when doing multiple searches
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.6.0 2022-05-22
- New: full Paramount+ support
- Fix: UI oversized spacing, rows vertically stretched when loading portrait thumbnails
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.5.5 2022-05-22
Fix: Paramount+ now supported for non-US accounts
some minor fixes and changes
1.3.5.4 2022-05-20
Note: Paramount+ still fails for non-US subscribers, we are working on it.
New: Paramount+ subtitle support added
Fix: Paramount+ cut off audio should no longer happen.
Fix: Paramount+ logout implemented
Fix: Paramount+ proper display of number of channels for Dolby formats
Fix: Paramount+ searching sometimes failed
Fix: Paramount+ series with seasons not starting at #1 work now.
1.3.5.3 2022-05-19
New: Paramount+ supported (known limitations: profile switching not yet supported, subtitle support not yet implemented)
Fix: installer language Italian: cosmetic change
Improved: provider icons better resolution, especially with Hi-DPI monitors
updated languages
some minor fixes
1.3.5.2 2022-05-10
- Fix: adapt Netflix login procedure to site changes
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.5.0 2022-04-29
- Fix: HBOmax DRM update
- Fix: Hulu, adapted to some changes in API
- Fix: Netflix newer titles work again (though mostly SD only for now)
- Fix: Spanish language distinctions, should now work better
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.4.0 2022-04-07
- Fix: HBOmax Europe DRM specifics implemented, should work for new movies now.
- Fix: Amazon Prime, some specific videos wouldn't decrypt correctly
- Improved: Playlist processing time greatly reduced
- many minor fixes
1.3.3.0 2022-03-18
- Fix: Netflix HD
- many, many, many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.3.2.7 beta 2022-03-15
Fix: added series support for Rakuten TV
updated languages
1.3.2.5 beta 2022-03-14
Fix: regression, occasional endless loops (application unresponsive) for some actions (search, logout, profiles)
Improved: Rakuten, added non-local audio languages
Improved: Search field now above the page tabs (Rakuten TV)
Fix: UI misbehavior (sometimes randomly sized tile rows) mostly under control
updated languages
1.3.2.4 beta 2022-03-12
Fix: crash when searching
1.3.2.3 beta 2022-03-11
Improved: DRM redesign
New: support for Rakuten TV Europe
many, many, many minor changes and fixes
updated languages
Note: known Issues with Rakuten TV:
currently only the user's preset audio language is available
you may notice some UI misbehavior (tile rows are over- or undersized)¨
1.3.2.2 beta 2022-02-04
Fix: Hulu implementation miscategorized some movies as unavailable
Improved: Amazon Prime Playlist parsing performance improvement
Fix: still some Amazon Series, when queued, could crash the application (different cause)
Fix: "Navigation is disabled" message when Amazon JS code triggers navigation events
some minor changes and fixes
1.3.2.1 2022-02-03
- Fix: some Amazon Series, when queued, could crash the application
1.3.2.0 2022-02-02
- Fix: adapted to Hulu website changes
- Fix: Netflix audio tracks sometimes missing the (descriptive) flag
- Fix: occasional, unnecessary DRM failures on Prime
- many minor changes and fixes
1.3.1.0 2021-01-28
- Fix: a few stability fixes
- Improved: less network traffic on bulk downloads
- Improved: DRM implementation restructured for planned improvements
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.3.0.0 2021-01-21
- fix: Amazon download list contained incorrect entries
- improved: Netflix now downloads 1080p again
- many minor changes and fixes
1.2.9.5 2021-01-17
- fix: workaround for Prime sometimes not getting notified when a page had loaded
- fix: Prime goes into an endless loop when configuring certain titles
- improvement: this version brings back a lot of 1080p content for Netflix and Amazon,
but most new titles remain SD. We are still working on bringing HD back entirely
- many behind-the-scenes changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.9.0 2021-01-07
- workaround: Netflix limited to SD, sorry for the inconvenience, we're
working on getting HD back
- fix: Amazon functional, but presently also limited to SD, full HD is also work in progress
- fix: crash when HBO downloaded segmented subtitles time out
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.8.0 2021-12-23
- fix: DRM updates
- fix: Netflix manifest retrieval
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
- note: all streaming services should work now, only some Amazon titles still have DRM issues
1.2.7.0 2021-12-09
- fix: DRM updates
- fix: occasional crashes when logging in to some providers.
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.6.2 2021-11-28
fix: Missing 5.1 audio in download configuration. (Amazon)
improved: Added "Home" button to Amazon/Primevideo browser.
fix: "Download" and "Watchparty" buttons are now removed from the page (Amazon).
a few minor changes and fixes
1.2.6.1 2021-11-26
- Fix: Failure to retrieve additional episodes' info (Amazon over 25 episodes)
- Fix: workaround to correctly display languages with three-letter codes, like cmn
- Fix: workaround to detect CC flag by scanning language representation, when no "assistive" flag is provided (Disney+)
- Fix: Playback resource retrieval issues (Amazon / could cause application to crash)
- a few minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
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AnyStream Plus only:
- Fix: race condition could lead to two queue entries competing for a single quota-token
1.2.6.0 2021-11-25
- Changed: Netflix implementation entirely new. Addresses, among other thing, occasional crashes
- Fix: crash, when thumbnail images shown in the download dialog arrive extremely late after
the dialog has been closed
- Fix: new Browser introduced in v1.2.2.4 now supports IME input (Japanese/Chinese compositing keyboards)
- Fix: some display issues with right-to-left languages
- Change: subtitles will be saved in the original format without pre-processing, if the format matches
- Change: automatically selected forced subtitles for matching audio on successive episode downloads, if the first episode has no forced subs.
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.5.0 2021-11-19
- Changed: redesigned episode selection dialog for better overwiew
- Improved: selection dialog remembers size
- Change: Disney Japan is now merged with the international Disney+ implementation
- Improved: identify invalid proxy settings
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AnyStream Plus:
- Fix: Amazon Prime batchdownloads not starting
- Change: remove provider queues, when removing the respective provider from the active list
- New: allow selection of individual episodes for batch download
- Improved: persistent queue dimensions
- Improved: download queue finished dialog now allows to open the explorer
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- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.4.4 2021-11-16
Fix: Hulu duration retrieval sometimes failed and caused incorrect header space estimations
Change: provider entries in download queue are now permanently shown (allows to pause a queue before adding titles)
New: reorder queue entries using the mouse
New: add button to show/hide the queue
Change: provider queues are now processed round-robin, if constraints limit the number of concurrent downloads
Fix: queues waiting for available quota will now automatically resume, when tokens become available
Fix: better autoselection of audio streams in successive season downloads
Fix: (attempt to fix, remains to be solidified through testing) Hulu incorrect decryption of some batch downloads
Fix: over-long titles resulted in too long file names
Fix: show names in the queue for Amazon (season name was erroneously being used).
Fix: Missing audio description tracks (Amazon)
many minor changes and fixes
updated languages
1.2.4.3 2021-11-12
Fix: correctly determine write failures (disk full condition and similar)
Fix: Season batch downloads missing subtitles in subsequent episodes
Fix: occasional crashes when downloading from Amazon
a few minor changes and fixes
updated languages
1.2.4.2 2021-11-11
New: AnyStream Plus now has batch download
Fix: Amazon browser text-selection with mouse wasn't working
Improved: video now don't require finalizing anymore
many minor and medium changes and fixes
updated languages
1.2.4.1 2021-11-01
- Hotfix: Netflix login sometimes still didn't work reliably
- updated languages
1.2.4.0 2021-10-30
- Fix: Browser hangs on unavailable episode (Amazon), which lead to a crash when closing AnyStream.
- Fix: possible netflix login failure
- Change: moved Amazon progress bar, so that the browser doesn't constantly resize
1.2.3.1 beta 2021-10-28
- New: HBOMax implementation displays removal dates
- Fix: HBOMax season ordering when seasons are intermittently missing
- Fix: Added the previously missing support for hi-Latn.
- Fix: Audio tracks without linguistic content are now properly identified.
- Change: Amazon browser now properly disables during downloads and loading pages (uses off-screen rendering)
- Improved: remove/disable more "play" buttons in Amazon browser to prevent accidental clicking
- Fix: Implemented additional on-page data processing (Amazon). Episodes that were previously missed (sports show) are now listed properly.
- some minor and medium changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.3.0 2021-10-26
- Fix: could not save to the root directory of a drive
- Change: AnyStream 64bit should now work on Windows 7 64-bit (32bit requirement dropped)
- Improved: extended check for available space befor downloading
- Fix: application could sometimes crash, if profiles were switched while the page was still being loaded
- New: Add My list and continue watching categories to HBOMax view
- Fix: Re-enabled user login state detector. A notification is displayed if a user is not logged in to Amazon/Prime
- Improved: Improved logging.
- Fix: Re-enabled display of full list of episodes when there are more than 25 episodes in a season (Amazon)
- Improved: Improved detection of the free space available on the target storage media.
- Fix (regression): Amazon navigation is no longer possible during Amazon downloads.
Currently as a workaround, displaying a message when navigation is attempted (new browser can
not yet be disabled properly).
- Fixed HBO duration detection
- Improved: A user is presented with error message when a page fails to load (Amazon, sometimes resulted in
just a white screen)
- many minor and medium changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.2.2 2021-09-21
- Fix: Amazon large number of episodes could cause application exception
- Fix: selecting subtitles could cause an application exception under some circumstances
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.2.1 beta 2021-09-20
non-public beta
1.2.2.0 2021-09-15
- Fix: subtitles on Amazon could sometimes fail silently (by chance)
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.1.2 beta 2021-09-15
Improved: HBOMax now detects closed captions vs. subtitles.
Fix (regression): Amazon subtitles did not retain their language codes when written to HDD
Fix: overzealous Amazon HTML-encoded string sanitizer caused some downloads to fail
1.2.1.1 2021-09-14
Fix: downloading the same video twice could cause a broken MP4 file
Change: added literal "(Japan)" to the japanese Disney+ provider, as some confused it with the US/EU version
New: added support for segmented subtitles (HBO)
Fix: HTML-encoded strings are now resolved properly.
some major changes to subtitle handling
updated languages
1.2.1.0 2021-09-09
- Fix: support some more subtitle formats on HBO (segmented subtitles not yet supported)
- updated languages
1.2.0.4 beta 2021-09-08
- Fix: missing language label on Netflix audio
- Fix: downloaded hulu filenames could have incorrect season numbering
- New: allow selection of video codecs, if more than one are available
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.0.3 beta 2021-09-06
- New: provider Disney+ Japan added
- Fix: possible crash when receiving corrupt thumbnail data
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.0.2 beta 2021-09-02
- Fix: Hulu could get stuck on login screen
- Fix: PNG subtitles with identical timestamps (multiple subs at once) broke subtitle display
- New: allow for username and password in proxy settings
- improved: Improved handling of MPD manifests (in accordance to the specifications)
- Improved: the algorithm for fragment size calculation
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.0.1 2021-08-21
- Fix: crash when changing the settings with a basic license
1.2.0.0 2021-08-20
- Fix: disable drag & scroll when browser is disabled
- Fix: HBO search re-enabled
- Fix: HBO series with unusual season numbering (6A/6B) supported
- Fix: ordering issue with some series (Seasons not labeled correctly)
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.1.5.0 2021-06-05
- improved: Improved the CDN rotation algorithm.
- fix: reverted to previous Qt framework version due to regression in the Chromium browser
- fix: OpenSSL update update to address occasional SSL handshake errors (need testing and confirmation)
- fix: modification to browser access for Amazon Prime - sometimes failing (need testing and confirmation)
- fix: updated framework to address occasional SSL handshake errors
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.1.4.0 2021-05-31
- improved: Added retry mechanism for the download channel setup process.
- improved: Corrected the naming of subtitle files (when saved separately).
- fix: Subtitles for languages with many dialects.
- fix: Error messages contained in the title manifest (Netflix) are conveyed to the user.
- updated languages
1.1.3.1 2021-05-12
- fix: Missing audio languages on Amazon/Prime.
1.1.3.0 2021-05-12
- Fix: Discovery+ episode save path.
- Improved: Audio track language representation and missing audio tracks (Amazon).
- Improved: Basic CDN server switching is now enabled (Amazon & Netflix)
- Fix: Amazon DRM license errors (Prime reducing video quality to SD).
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.2.0 2021-04-21
- Fix: Netflix: adapt to slight protocol changes
- Improved: handling of Discovery+ via Primevideo.
- Fix: Crash on DRM error (Amazon)
- Fix: swap series title and episode title in MP4 meta data
- Fix: sporadic crashes on abort()
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.1.0 2021-04-14
- improved: audio/video alignment in output
- fix: video cutoff at the end of some downloads
- fix: subtitles processing problems
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.0.2 2021-04-05
- fix: Audio/Video track inconsistencies.
- fix: Netflix incorrect video bitrate autoselection.
- fix: SDH (aka CC) Subtitles were not saved.
1.1.0.1 2021-04-04
- fix: crash in 32-bit build when starting Amazon download
- fix: audio/video track cutoffs should be fixed now
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.0.0 2021-04-01
- New: Disney+: allow pin entry for pin protected profiles
- fix: New lines in subtitles.
- fix: Forced subtitles being overwritten.
- fix: download best Disney+ bitrate profile
- download engine and muxer redesigned
- many minor fixes and improvements
- updated and added several languages
1.0.9.0 2021-01-19
- fix: additional fix for Amazon/Prime properties retrieval.
1.0.8.2 2021-01-19
- fix: incorrect pre-download calculation of available space.
- fix: localization issues.
- fix: Amazon/Prime properties retrieval.
- fix: Hanging on insufficient disk space.
- improved: Proper reporting of unavailable "downloadables".
- improved: A few tiny logging improvements.
- improved: overall interaction with the content of Amazon/Prime page.
- improved: logging.
1.0.8.1
Missing Qt5Xml.dll - fixed. Please re-download 1.0.8.1
1.0.8.0 2021-01-18
- improved: Playlist processing has been completely reworked (Amazon/Prime)
- fix: "Back"/"Forward" buttons (Amazon). Now the buttons are enabled/disabled appropriately.
- Some minor fixes
- Updated and added languages
1.0.7.0 2020-12-30
- Fix: Missing audio tracks for titles where only one audio language is available.
- Fix: Fixed missing audio tracks problem (Netflix), which used to result in AnyStream crashing.
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.6.0 2020-11-04
- Fix: Amazon "PBR retrieval failed" error.
- Improved: added logging
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.5.0 2020-10-28
- Improved: Netflix supports DD+ and higher bitrates.
- Improved: Added option to select the quality of the audio stream.
- Improved: Added automatic retry delays (activated in case of a network error during the download process).
- Improved: Added check for sufficient free space on disk.
- Improved: Added logging to certain Amazon procedures.
- many minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.4.0 2020-10-11
- Fix: Netflix login issue
- Fix: Netflix gateway timeout problem
- Some minor fixes
- Added and updated languages
1.0.3.2 2020-10-11
Fix: Netflix login issue
Fix: Netflix gateway timeout problem
Some minor fixes
Added and updated languages
1.0.3.1 2020-10-02
Fix: a broken frame early (around 10-30s) in most downloaded videos
1.0.3.0 2020-10-02
- Fix: crash when finalizing Amazon downloads with HEVC codec
- Change: temporarily removed HEVC due to quality being worse than AVC will be reintroduced as selectable choice updated languages
1.0.2.0 2020-10-01
- Improved: Changed video codec override from H264 to H265 (allows HEVC video).
- Fix: Added default user agent string to Netflix initialization.
- Fix: display of server-generated messagebox
- New: check for new versions
- Many minor fixes
- Added languages
- known problems (will likely be fixed in upcoming beta, available at https://forum.redfox.bz):
- Netflix login can fail
- Amazon browser crashes when running in a VM or over remote desktop service (opengl-problem)
1.0.1.1 beta 2020-09-29
- fix: registered licenses will allow AnyStream to run in virtual machines
- improved: Added logout option for Netflix.
- improved: Alert is shown when attempting to download titles that are not yet
available on Netflix.
- improved: Added "Show password" checkbox on Netflix login panel.
- fix: Output file name creation mechanism supports Tab (Netflix uses Tabs from time to time).
- fix: Corrected audio track autoselection for Netflix.
- improved: added logging.
- Some minor fixes
- Added languages
1.0.1.0 release candidate 2020-09-18
- Fix: possible crash when mouse cursor leaves netflix item, while data for tooltip is being retrieved.
- Fix: The last subtitle display time was not limited.
- Fix: Netflix UI remains disabled after license related errors.
- Fix: Proper file naming for forced subtitles (SRT/TTML).
- Improved: Episode number alongside the episode name in the downloadables list.
- Improved: "Postprocessing" message should be tied to the main window.
- Improved: Now hiding the "play" buttons on Primevideo to avoid unintentional clicking
- Changed: Prime browser now turns gray when disabled
- Fix: TVShow season is now shown when download configuration dialog is closed.
- Fix: changed language code for Norway from "no" to proper "nb"
- Fix: Empty message on download cancellation.
- Fix: vobsub generation bug (so far not observed)
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.0.0 release candidate 2020-08-14
- New: allow downloading of forced subtitles
- New: support Full HD on Netflix
- New: show season title in downloadables dialog
- Fix: season ordering for names seasons ("The Sinner" was not ordered chronologically)
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.4 beta 2020-08-04
- Change: font size for embedded text subtitles now calculated as video-height/30
- Fix: detect failure when creating the output file and abort
- Fix: detect more illegal characters in filenames and replace/remove them
(including TAB)
- Fix: incorrect calculation of filename suffix (subtitle filenames too short and
colliding with each other)
- Change: use "comment" field in subtitle handler to describe subtitle language
(older versions of PowerDVD use this field)
- some minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.3 beta 2020-08-03
- Change: replacements for illegal file name characters changed, so that the
result better retains its semantics
- Fix: possible endless loop when processing a certain atom type
- Changed: path template editor added (allows deletion and modification)
- Fixed some style issues
- some minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.2 beta 2020-08-02
- fix: episode/season numbers are now at least two digits.
- fix: season number was not read correctly for certain Amazon series,
which yielded creation of invalid path.
- updated languages
0.9.4.1 beta 2020-07-31
- new: support 5.1 sound
- new: subtitles optionally stored as .srt, .ttml or embedded into the .mp4
- new: support for image subtitles (only Netflix for RTL languages, like arabic,
hebrew and also Chinese, Thai, ..., stored as embedded vobsub)
Note, that not all players support embedded vobsub
- Fix: support "short film" types
- Fix: verify on overwriting of existing files, whether they are locked
- New: define filename output templates - unfinished, but fully functional
- New: re-open season download box after download (configurable)
- Change: minor styling updates.
- Improved: reduced overall filesize through post-processing
- Fix: windows taskbar progress indicator is back (needed re-implementing for the
double-download feature)
- many minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.0 beta 2020-06-08
- Fix: possible crash when saving settings after fresh install
- Possible fix: wait for webengine process to terminate before exiting
(this is just a weak guess on the cause of a few observed crashes
from the Amazon page)
- New: added small progressbar to indicate the load progress for Netflix
- New: added program logo to the pages
- Change: trials are no longer possible in virtual machines
- a few minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.3.6 beta 2020-06-05
- Change: Tabbed view. Amazon and Netflix now run parallel in two tab windows
- Change: -> it is possible to download from Amazon and Netflix in parallel
- Change: AnyStream now starts up with the provider last used
- Change: providers can be deselected in settings
- Change: AnyStream now can only run in one single instance
- Change: Amazon back/forward buttons now enable/disable properly
- Change: several style changes
- Change: download speed control now is a dropdown box (previously: slider)
- Fix: installer wouldn't work in 32bit Windows
- Fix: 64bit version will require at least Windows 8 - malfunctions under Windows 7
- Change: make always saving a log file with every download optiona l (settings)
- New: possibility to create a log file at any time through the menu
- Fix: show Netflix seasons in correct order
- many minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.3.5 beta 2020-05-29
- Fix installer: uninstall will from now on also remove the Amazon-Cookie cache
- New: added progress bar when loading Amazon pages
- Change: auto-close Abort-query if download finishes while still open
- Fix: download speed limiter is now correctly initialized to 1x after clean install
- Fix: added qt core translations for three orphaned languages (sv, ms, nl)
- Changed: application style greatly improved
- Improved: application appearance on High DPI monitors
- New: Amazon warning, if not logged in
- Change: Amazon "Downloadables" button makes more noise, is more visible
- Updated languages
- many minor fixes
0.9.3.4 beta 2020-05-18
- Fix: The missing audio languages problem with Amazon is solved.
- Added: Throttle control. The user can select the speed of download.
- Fix: translation of crash dump message
- Fix: Amazon UI not re-enabled upon audio/video license retrieval error.
- Fix: Added audio stream language tag to audio streams downloaded from Netflix.
- Change: pre-select the most likely correct region on first startup
- Fix: Fixed several unicode issues
- Fix: Exiting application during download now asks for confirmation
- Fix: Fixed download abort "hanging".
- Fix: Amazon crash on Abort download.
- Updated languages
- many minor fixes
0.9.3.3 beta 2020-05-13
- New: added Netflix search
- Fix: download causes application to crash, when no subtitles are available
- Fix: Netflix view is now disabled/enabled properly during download
and configuration thereof.
- Improved: Changed download completion messages. Now they are in accordance
with the download completion reason.
- Fix installer: Stop silently renaming all files in use and ask for reboot
- Fix: Netflix browser is re-enabled on license processing error.
- Fix: Netflix profile switching is disabled during content loading.
- Improved: Subtitles files are named after the title
(e.g. <title name language.ttml>
- Improved: Modified tooltip appearance (rich text)
- New: crash dump reporting added
- Fix: Netflix "Request too large" issue should be solved by segmented data
request.
- Improved: Added intensive JS logging (keeping the private info out).
- Change: preferred resolutions are now identified by width instead of height (note:
application needs to re-learn)
- Fix: language names in audio/subtitle selection dialog now always forced to begin upper-case
- Improved: audio-language pre-selection now thoroughly honors country codes alongside language codes
- Change: added "don't show again" to completion message
- New: added option to re-enable suppressed messages in settings
- Improved: expired license message now shows license details
- Change: added "waitcursor" during Netflix load
- Change/Fix: Subtitle selection now disabled when no subtitles available (was previously
possible to "select" the "no subtitles" line)
- Change: stop icon animations when Netflix browser is disabled, e.g. during download.
- Updated languages
- many minor fixes
0.9.3.2 beta 2020-05-04
- change: server protocol. Older versions will no longer work.
- fix: Missing audio languages in Amazon download configuration dialog.
- fix: License error handling corrected.
- improved: Added extensive logging to Netflix login procedure.
- improved: Added file overwrite confirmation dialog.
- improved: enhanced tooltips
- fix: "Concert/Performance" added to the list of supported media types.
- fix: "My List" no longer hangs (Amazon/Prime)
- change: Previous "Home" button renamed to "Close Amazon/Primevideo"
or "Close Netflix" for Amazon and Netflix respectively.
- fix: Netflix UI becomes disabled upon item click and is only enabled
when the download process is canceled or completed.
- improved: Implemented Netflix Content Delivery Network server
selection based on its rank.
- fix: Netflix audio track artifacts.
- fix: Amazon/Prime title information in the Downloadables dialog will show in the language
of Amazon/Prime's UI. This is not related to AnyStream's language settings.
- fix: Output path generation errors.
- improved: Netflix UI (additional scroll areas, tooltips)
- change: add "open folder" button on completion message
- fix: several minor fixes
- updated languages
0.9.3.1 beta 2020-04-27
- change: translators, please be aware: language files renamed from "lang_*.ts" to "las_*.ts"
- change: QtWebEngineProcess placed into JOB object to ensure no orphaned processes
- fix: bug in language preselection.
- fix: localize Netflix configuration audio/subtitle languages strings
- new: Add task bar progress indicator
- improved: switching interface language updates all elements
- new: add search functionality for Netflix (only "on page" - searching on Netflix will be added soon)
- improved: Netflix UI refined
- fix: login request changed to allow special characters in content.
- changed: internal MP4 muxer completely rewritten.
- fix: Incomplete download (omission of last fragment)
- fix: Audio language code copied from source stream (if present)
- fix: A few minor fixes
- updated languages
0.9.3.0 beta 2020-04-10
- fix: made a few strings translatable, that weren't
- improved: pre-selection of audio languages prefer main audio track over descriptive or other.
- changed: allow only to run one instance of AnyStream per Netflix/Amazon
- fix: orientation problem with MPC-HC
- fix: stuttering video with several players
- improved: Amazon download procedure to avoid scattered video/audio artifacts.
- updated languages
- Some minor improvements
0.9.2.9 beta 2020-04-08
- fix: Netflix download hangs at 99%
- fix: made a few strings translatable, that weren't
- fix: resize issue, when changing to Netflix view and then back to Amazon/Netflix selection
- fix: Netflix login page - button sizes, error handling, usability issues
- fix: localization for internal literals applied
- changed: remove option to auto-preselect resolution and languages, configuration dialog
now always shows (with items preselected according to previous selections)
- updated languages
0.9.2.8 beta 2020-04-06
initial beta release
- Fix: Netflix: Some content would result in failure to recieve the playlist
- Fix: Amazon audio only stereo in some regions
- Fix: added MP4 encryption scheme PIFF
- Fix: Youtube - minor changes to the site caused download failure
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.8.0 beta 2024-04-25
- Fix: WOW: Protocol updates, service updates
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.7.0 2024-04-06
- Fix: AppleTV+: some titles would fail with error 404
1.8.6.0 2024-03-19
- Fix: Max: site updates caused failure to setup session
- Fix: Linux: ChookieThief should work with Firefox installations via snap now
- some minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.8.5.0 2024-03-12
- Fix: Prime: changes in protocol caused season selector to be greyed out
- Fix: WOW: Protocol updates (empty page)
- some minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.8.4.0 2024-03-04
- Changed: new max should now work in South America / Caribbean area
- Fix: Prime: workaround for download button could cause endless refresh cycles
- Fix: Paramount: 403 error when logging in
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.3.2 beta 2024-02-27
Changed: new max should now work in South America / Caribbean area
1.8.3.1 beta 2024-02-16
- Fix: Prime: workaround for download button could cause endless refresh cycles
1.8.3.0 beta 2024-02-16
- Fix: Prime: implemented workaround for download button not updating for some users
- Fix: Disney: detect incorrectly entered PIN and allow retry
- Fix: some series were listed with incorrect season numbering
- Improved: Rakuten: 1080p available on many titles
- many minor changes and improvements
1.8.2.1 beta 2024-02-13
Fix: some series were listed with incorrect season numbering
Improved: Rakuten: 1080p available on many titles
1.8.2.0 2024-02-13
- Changed: Netflix now supports the CookieThief option after an unsuccessful login attempt (e.g. due to
reCAPTCHA failing)
- Fix: Prime: application exception when retrieving a playlist times out. Increased timeout and now
fail the download instead of crashing on timeout
- Fix: Netflix: adapted to changes in login procedure
- Improved: optimized processing of huge MPD files, now significantly faster
- updated languages
1.8.1.1 beta 2024-02-13
- Fix: Prime: application exception when retrieving a playlist times out. Increased timeout and now
fail the download instead of crashing on timeout
- Fix: Netflix: adapted to changes in login procedure
- Improved: optimized processing of huge MPD files, now significantly faster
- updated languages
1.8.1.0 2024-02-01
- Fix: Amazon didn't work properly in some regions
- Fix: Disney: misintepretation if maturity rating in some cases (resulted in missing adult/mature content)
- Fix: Netflix: still SD, but newer content should at least be available again
- Improved: optimizations on protocol buffer operations
- Fix: RTL+: some videos would error out at the end, though the resulting video was fine
(miscalculation of fragment count)
- Improved: RTL+: added CDN rotation, because the main gateway occasionally seems to be overloaded
- Improved: RTL+: allow HD content
- many minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.8.0.5 beta 2024-01-30
Fix: Disney: misintepretation if maturity rating in some cases (resulted in missing adult/mature content)
Fix: Netflix: still SD, but newer content should at least be available again
updated languages
1.8.0.4 beta 2024-01-29
Improved: optimizations on protocol buffer operations
Fix: RTL+: some videos would error out at the end, though the resulting video was fine
(miscalculation of fragment count)
Improved: RTL+: added CDN rotation, because the main gateway occasionally seems to be overloaded
updated languages
1.8.0.3 beta 2024-01-25
Improved: RTL+: allow HD content
updated languages
1.8.0.2 2024-01-22
- Fix: RTL+: show all episodes of a season (were truncated at 5)
- Fix: Prime: show all episodes of a season (were truncated at 25)
- some minor changes and improvements
1.8.0.1 2024-01-19
- Hotfix: adapted to work with changed Amazon database structure
note: it is possible, that some titles don't work as usual, please notify us (forum/contact)
- Fix: RTL+: some titles wouldn't download
- Fix: cosmetic fix for misidentified Season numbers
1.8.0.0 2024-01-18
- New: provider RTL+ (Germany)
- New: added support for avif image formats
- Fix: max: embedded subtitles shifted at segmentation-discontinuity (became out of sync)
- Fix: max: segmented subtitles partly missing
- Fix: determine correct key id with some uncommon mpd formats (Joyn)
- Improved: Prime: display dialog boost audio tracks
- many minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.7.2.2 beta 2024-01-06
Fix: max: segmented subtitles partly missing
Improved: Prime: display dialog boost audio tracks
updated languages
1.7.2.1 2024-01-04
Fix: determine correct key id with some uncommon mpd formats (Joyn)
Fix: max segmented subtitle retrieval (adjust for presentation time start offset)
some minor changes and improvements
1.7.2.0 2023-12-27
- Fix: Disney crashed in some instances
- some minor changes and improvements
- updated languages
1.7.1.0 2023-12-12
- Fix: Wow: adapt to slight protocol changes
- New: added provider AppleTV+ (SD only, sorry)
- Fix: from beta: AppleTV+ device limit exceeded problem should be fixed
- Improved: informative message boxes, when provider rejects a download to to VPN or content status
- Improved: support for some malformed subtitle data
- Fix: Disney: protocol changes
- New: added support for cbcs encrypted content
- some minor changes
1.7.0.0 2023-12-04
- Fix: Linux: added libraries to support Debian 12
- Fix: Linux: mysql dependencies
- New: CookieThief (adopt login session from Firefox/Chrom/Edge)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.9.0 2023-11-27
- Change: add ".temp" extension to files during download
- Fix: Paramount: titles, espectially TV shows with designed advert-breaks were only partially downloaded
- Fix: improved UI to work better with low resolution displays (1024x768 is roughly the lowest supported resolution)
- Workaround: Windows' proxy auto-configuration could stall startup, when the LAN is not setup for auto-configuration
- some minor improvements
- updated languages
1.6.8.0 2023-11-08
- New: Workaround for "VSO Downloader 6" destroying Windows' wininet settings, causing programs using
wininet (like AnyStream) to stop working
- Fix: Joyn Austria: adapt to changes in protocol (login failed)
- Fix: Joyn: not all episodes were shown, if a series has a mix of free and subscribed-only content
- some minor improvements
1.6.7.3 beta 2023-11-06
1.6.7.2 beta 2023-11-02
- Improved: Youtube: search for entire URL didn't work on all videos
- Fix: Disney: remove surplus audio on some titles
- some minor changes
1.6.7.1 beta 2023-10-26
- Fix: prime: proper handling of out-of-series extras (please verify)
- Improved: max: better quality
1.6.7.0 2023-10-25
- Fix: Netflix mostly back to HD
- New: persistent queue - the queue contents are stored on HDD and will be reloaded again when starting the application.
- Workaround: MacOS only: StreamFab will somehow block shared memory even after exiting, so that AnyStream fails to start
AnyStream now avoids shared memory and uses a different approach.
- Fix: pick up all individual segments of "Toy Story Funday Football"
- Workaround: MacOS only: disable right-click context menu for CEF Browser, as this would crash on MacOS
- Fix: Disney "Toy Story Funday Football" wouldn't download
- Fix: regression: Paramount, couldn't retrieve playlist for certain movies
- Fix: Amazon series with more than 200 episodes work, now
- New: add release year to file name templates
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.6.0 2023-09-22
- Improved: Joyn: add field to enter parental PIN
- Changed: show/hide download queue button moved to the bottom-right
- Fix: Linux: removed libtiff dependency
- Changed: max playlist processing. Now supports ad-subscriptions
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.5.0 2023-09-14
- New: added provider itvX (UK)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.4.3 beta 2023-09-14
- Fix: (regression) SSL connections didn't work on Linux in the previous two beta versions
1.6.4.2 beta 2023-09-13
- Fix: itvX: paid subscriptions weren't identified properly
- Workaround: itvX download sessions break when adding additional content
1.6.4.1 beta 2023-09-12
- New: added provider itvX (UK)
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.4.0 2023-09-07
- Improved: Joyn display more collections, improved navigation
- Fix: Hulu: adapted to protocol changes
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.3.0 2023-08-24
- Fix: Joyn: avoid duplicate episodes in list
- Fix: Joyn: gather more than 60 episodes per season
- Fix: Amazon: change in protocol limited episodes to 25 max.
- Workaround: added amazon CA certificates
- Fix: crash when logging out of some providers, while search results are being shown
- Fix: joyn sometimes episodes missing for registered Joyn users
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.2.0 2023-08-16
- New: added provider Joyn
- Fix: Cwtv: adapted to changes in protocol
- Fix: Prime: changed landing pages
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.1.0 2023-08-08
- Fix: fresh installs of AnyStream would download very slowly, if user didn't change the settings at least once
- Fix: Wow: some series didn't show (esp. Kids)
- Workaround: Prime: a rare condition, where Prime will not register properly and shows no
downloadable titles fixed
- Fix: Wow: titles, that are only available in SD couldn't be downloaded
- Improved: finalizing of downloaded files - speed slightly improved
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.6.0.0 2023-08-07
- New: added provider CWTV (US only)
- Improved: Amazon: support higher framerates > 30fps (esp. sports)
- Fix: Wow: previously unsupported subtitle format added
- Improved: Wow: session status more robust
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.9.0 2023-08-04
- New: added provider WowTV
- some minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.8.0 2023-07-14
- Fix: proxy settings did not work for Prime under Linux and Mac
- Fix: improved robustness against Youtube randomness (occasional failed downloads)
- updated languages
1.5.7.0 2023-07-10
- New: added provider Peacock
- New: added provider Youtube (currently no accounts, only anonymous, only "regular" Youtube content)
- Fix: remove dependency on DX12, which snuck in with v1.5.6.1 excluding Win OS before v10
- Fix: Linux dependencies
- updated languages
1.5.6.7 beta 2023-07-09
- Fix: Peacock: avoid token expiry, while titles are sitting in the download queue
- Possible fix: Peacock login procedure more thorough, should fix the odd failure to login
1.5.6.6 beta 2023-07-08
- New: added provider Peacock
- updated languages
1.5.6.5 beta 2023-07-06
- Fix: adapted to changes in Youtube protocol
- updated languages
1.5.6.4 beta 2023-06-24
- Fix: adapted to changes in Youtube protocol
- updated languages
1.5.6.3 beta 2023-06-21 (Windows only)
- Fix: remove dependency on DX12, which snuck in with v1.5.6.1 excluding Win OS before v10
- Improved: Youtube subtitles removed html escapement
- Fix: Youtube long descriptions
1.5.6.2 beta 2023-06-19
- New: added provider Youtube (currently no accounts, only anonymous, only "regular" Youtube content)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.6.0 2023-06-07
- Fix: Hulu: add HEVC resolutions back
- Fix: added missing dependencies for newer Linux versions
- Fix: (regression) Hulu showing no tracks
- Fix: some max series failed to load the playlist
- Improved: (max) offer better audio quality
- Fix: max subtitles not working
- a few minor changes
1.5.5.0 2023-05-26
- New: added provider max (note: for US users, this replaces HBOmax, though in some other countries, HBOmax is still active)
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.4.0 2023-05-06
- New: Linux and macOS releases
- Fix: (Prime) make some additional sub-items for live-events selectable/downloadable
- Fix: synopsis display size on macOS
- Change: moved some menu items into the application menu on macOS
- many minor changes
- updated languages
1.5.2.3 2023-03-02
- Fix: regression Netflix subtitles not shown
- Updated languages
1.5.2.2 2023-03-01
- Workaround: for the "Prime dead season selector" phenomenon
- Updated languages
1.5.2.1 2023-03-01
- Fix: Prime: (regression) application exception with some titles
- Fix: Hulu: HEVC was not available for titles, that don't support EC3 audio
1.5.2.0 2023-02-28
- Improved: Prime auto-handling of codecs, depending on availability and DRM
- Improved: Hulu, audio quality
- Fix: regression - preferred video codec was not preselected
- Fix: Hulu sometimes offered resolutions, that are not available. Caused unplayable files.
- Fix: Netflix: deal more gracefully with abrupt DRM changes
- Updated languages
- many minor changes
1.5.1.0 2023-02-09
- Improved: Hulu, higher resolutions
- New: HEVC codec available (see settings -> providers)
- Changed: moved region settings for Prime to settings -> providers
- many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.5.0.0 2023-01-30
- Workaround: Netflix sometimes resulted in lower than available resolution when Netflix servers
are under high load. This should now be improved.
- Fix: application crash when queing Amazon downloads (bug introduced in v1.4.9.8)
- Improved: DRM system has been extensively rewritten and improved
- Fix: intermittent failures with bad internet connections
- Fix: Paramount: searching suppressed some results
- Fix: Paramount+: detect high server load responses and attempt to recover
- many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.4.9.5 2022-12-19
- Improved: DRM flexibility
- many minor changes and stability improvements
- Updated languages
1.4.9.0 2022-12-06
- Changed: added more download speeds to choose from
- Fix/Improved: auto-preselection of forced subtitles
- Fix: possible crash, when episodes in a series have inconsistent audio languages
- Workaround: Netflix series with no synopsis would be listed multiple times in the selection
- Fix (non-issue): Paramount: request only meaningful categories for display
- Improved: display expected video bitrate, if known
- many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.4.8.0 2022-11-24
- Fix: show subtitles and audio streams selectably and properly in QuickTime
(and likely other Apple products)
- Improved: forced automatic subtitle pre-selection (to match audio choices)
- Updated languages
1.4.7.0 2022-11-22
- Fix: Audio track limitation was effectively set to 3 - changed to 5
- Fix: a few language selection anomalies (behaviour of checkboxes)
- Improved: more Netflix titles in 1080p
- Change: allow downloading multiple audio tracks per title (presently up to 5)
- Improved: subtitle auto-preselection now honors forced vs. not forced languages
- Improved: audio preselection can be set to "prefer descriptive audio"
- Workaround: Prime: incorrectly coded "show all episodes" page would cause end endless loop (CSI NY Season 2)
Now breaking the vicious circle when detecting this behavior.
- many, many minor changes
- Updated languages
1.4.6.0 2022-11-09
- Fix: HBOMax: adapt to API changes
- Fix: Netflix: Japanese vertical subtitles now really properly displayed
Note: this currently only works for embedded subtitles, SRT subs will still
be displayed horizontally. A future version will have better support
for text subtitles
- Fix: properly remove nested formatting in subtitles
- Fix: Prime: some audio codecs weren't presented (especially descriptive audio)
- some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.4.5.0 2022-10-31
- Improved: most Netflix titles available in 1080p
- Fix: support DASH manifest with individual media urls per fragment
- Fix: Japanese vertical subtitles should display correctly (embedded subtitle selection required)
- Fix: Hulu: some titles could not be downloaded due to incorrect URL
- Fix: Hulu: empty main page showing for some
- Fix: Netflix: changing profiles no longer worked
- some minor fixes
- updated languages
1.4.4.0 2022-09-28
- Fix: adapt to changes in Netflix API
- some minor fixes
1.4.3.0 2022-09-22
- Fix: support some unencrypted Paramount content
- Fix: Amazon: certain live content replays would not work properly
- Fix: occasional crash when searching with low remaining internet bandwidth
- Fix: HBO crash when keys cannot be retrieved
- some minor fixes
1.4.2.1 2022-09-13
- Fix: Paramount: some "series" wouldn't show (specifically season-less series, like CBS news)
- Improved: auto-preset languages sometimes not consistent, due to non-standard language codes
- updated languages
1.4.2.0 2022-08-25
- Fix: (regression) detection of descriptive languages since playlist redesign
- Fix: Netflix: unavailable resolutions would show for some titles
- some minor fixes
- updated languages
1.4.1.0 2022-08-18
- Fix: crash, when a network error causes failure to retrieve a license
- Fix: HBO session timeout would fail downloads
- Fix: crash when rapidly changing search terms
- Improved: detect HBO franchise titles
- Workaround: renu
1.4.0.2 2022-07-22
- Hotfix: adapted to changes in the HBOmax-API
1.4.0.1 2022-07-20
- Hotfix: adapted to slight changes in the Paramount+-API
1.4.0.0 2022-07-13
- Improved: language code detection for some providers with non-standard behavior
- Fix: (regression in previous betas): queue entries were not automatically removed
- Fix: Prime series with many episodes - sometimes an episode was missing
- Fix: endless page reload loop with Prime series having many episodes
- Change: search button enabled for search terms shorter than 3 characters
- Change: scroll arrows only show/are active when the application has the window focus
- Fix: Prime series with many episodes caused AnyStream to seemingly "log out" the user by requesting unsecure (non-SSL) pages
- Improved: request less and larger fragments while downloading, might speed up the downloads in some cases
- Fix: Netflix attempt to select the same audio bitrate when downloading multiple episodes of a season via template
- Improved: Netflix: some very old titles weren't downloaded in HD, even though they could
- Improved: memory management
- Fix: Prime downloads in previous beta, a certain type of download would possibly result in oversize and consume memory
- Fix: some subtitles on Netflix were identified but not downloaded
- Change: Amazon Prime now using new Playlist implementation.
- several improvements
1.3.9.0 2022-07-01
- Fix: Disney: proper labeling of forced subtitles
- Fix: Rakuten: some srt subtitles couldn't be parsed
- Fix: occasional crash when thumbnails are delivered after a title is no longer on display (usually search results)
- Fix: some titles on Netflix with very small fragments stalled on startup
- Fix: srt files no longer export webvtt content (an option for exporting webvtt content may
be added at a later time)
- Paramount, HBO and Hulu now using a new unified playlist core
- Fix: HBO 32bit overflow when downloading movies > 2GB
- Fix/Workaround: Hulu, rare incident: can't acquire series information
- Improved: HBO playlists
- Fix: some titles on Netflix failed
- Improved: playlist handling for all providers
- Improved: display more downloadable content on Prime Video (some content was not available)
- many minor fixes
- updated languages
1.3.8.0 2022-06-17
- Fix: Rakuten, support "free to watch with Ads" Series
- Fix: Netflix, certain video's caused failures
- some minor fixes
1.3.7.0 2022-06-14
- Fix: block closing provider tabs which have pending downloads
- Improved: DRM
- Fix: Paramount search results, sometimes seasons were not found
- Fix: HBO occasional Recaptcha failure during login possibly less likely
- Fix: application crash when doing multiple searches
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.6.0 2022-05-22
- New: full Paramount+ support
- Fix: UI oversized spacing, rows vertically stretched when loading portrait thumbnails
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.5.5 2022-05-22
Fix: Paramount+ now supported for non-US accounts
some minor fixes and changes
1.3.5.4 2022-05-20
Note: Paramount+ still fails for non-US subscribers, we are working on it.
New: Paramount+ subtitle support added
Fix: Paramount+ cut off audio should no longer happen.
Fix: Paramount+ logout implemented
Fix: Paramount+ proper display of number of channels for Dolby formats
Fix: Paramount+ searching sometimes failed
Fix: Paramount+ series with seasons not starting at #1 work now.
1.3.5.3 2022-05-19
New: Paramount+ supported (known limitations: profile switching not yet supported, subtitle support not yet implemented)
Fix: installer language Italian: cosmetic change
Improved: provider icons better resolution, especially with Hi-DPI monitors
updated languages
some minor fixes
1.3.5.2 2022-05-10
- Fix: adapt Netflix login procedure to site changes
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.5.0 2022-04-29
- Fix: HBOmax DRM update
- Fix: Hulu, adapted to some changes in API
- Fix: Netflix newer titles work again (though mostly SD only for now)
- Fix: Spanish language distinctions, should now work better
- updated languages
- some minor fixes
1.3.4.0 2022-04-07
- Fix: HBOmax Europe DRM specifics implemented, should work for new movies now.
- Fix: Amazon Prime, some specific videos wouldn't decrypt correctly
- Improved: Playlist processing time greatly reduced
- many minor fixes
1.3.3.0 2022-03-18
- Fix: Netflix HD
- many, many, many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.3.2.7 beta 2022-03-15
Fix: added series support for Rakuten TV
updated languages
1.3.2.5 beta 2022-03-14
Fix: regression, occasional endless loops (application unresponsive) for some actions (search, logout, profiles)
Improved: Rakuten, added non-local audio languages
Improved: Search field now above the page tabs (Rakuten TV)
Fix: UI misbehavior (sometimes randomly sized tile rows) mostly under control
updated languages
1.3.2.4 beta 2022-03-12
Fix: crash when searching
1.3.2.3 beta 2022-03-11
Improved: DRM redesign
New: support for Rakuten TV Europe
many, many, many minor changes and fixes
updated languages
Note: known Issues with Rakuten TV:
currently only the user's preset audio language is available
you may notice some UI misbehavior (tile rows are over- or undersized)¨
1.3.2.2 beta 2022-02-04
Fix: Hulu implementation miscategorized some movies as unavailable
Improved: Amazon Prime Playlist parsing performance improvement
Fix: still some Amazon Series, when queued, could crash the application (different cause)
Fix: "Navigation is disabled" message when Amazon JS code triggers navigation events
some minor changes and fixes
1.3.2.1 2022-02-03
- Fix: some Amazon Series, when queued, could crash the application
1.3.2.0 2022-02-02
- Fix: adapted to Hulu website changes
- Fix: Netflix audio tracks sometimes missing the (descriptive) flag
- Fix: occasional, unnecessary DRM failures on Prime
- many minor changes and fixes
1.3.1.0 2021-01-28
- Fix: a few stability fixes
- Improved: less network traffic on bulk downloads
- Improved: DRM implementation restructured for planned improvements
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.3.0.0 2021-01-21
- fix: Amazon download list contained incorrect entries
- improved: Netflix now downloads 1080p again
- many minor changes and fixes
1.2.9.5 2021-01-17
- fix: workaround for Prime sometimes not getting notified when a page had loaded
- fix: Prime goes into an endless loop when configuring certain titles
- improvement: this version brings back a lot of 1080p content for Netflix and Amazon,
but most new titles remain SD. We are still working on bringing HD back entirely
- many behind-the-scenes changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.9.0 2021-01-07
- workaround: Netflix limited to SD, sorry for the inconvenience, we're
working on getting HD back
- fix: Amazon functional, but presently also limited to SD, full HD is also work in progress
- fix: crash when HBO downloaded segmented subtitles time out
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.8.0 2021-12-23
- fix: DRM updates
- fix: Netflix manifest retrieval
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
- note: all streaming services should work now, only some Amazon titles still have DRM issues
1.2.7.0 2021-12-09
- fix: DRM updates
- fix: occasional crashes when logging in to some providers.
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.6.2 2021-11-28
fix: Missing 5.1 audio in download configuration. (Amazon)
improved: Added "Home" button to Amazon/Primevideo browser.
fix: "Download" and "Watchparty" buttons are now removed from the page (Amazon).
a few minor changes and fixes
1.2.6.1 2021-11-26
- Fix: Failure to retrieve additional episodes' info (Amazon over 25 episodes)
- Fix: workaround to correctly display languages with three-letter codes, like cmn
- Fix: workaround to detect CC flag by scanning language representation, when no "assistive" flag is provided (Disney+)
- Fix: Playback resource retrieval issues (Amazon / could cause application to crash)
- a few minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AnyStream Plus only:
- Fix: race condition could lead to two queue entries competing for a single quota-token
1.2.6.0 2021-11-25
- Changed: Netflix implementation entirely new. Addresses, among other thing, occasional crashes
- Fix: crash, when thumbnail images shown in the download dialog arrive extremely late after
the dialog has been closed
- Fix: new Browser introduced in v1.2.2.4 now supports IME input (Japanese/Chinese compositing keyboards)
- Fix: some display issues with right-to-left languages
- Change: subtitles will be saved in the original format without pre-processing, if the format matches
- Change: automatically selected forced subtitles for matching audio on successive episode downloads, if the first episode has no forced subs.
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.5.0 2021-11-19
- Changed: redesigned episode selection dialog for better overwiew
- Improved: selection dialog remembers size
- Change: Disney Japan is now merged with the international Disney+ implementation
- Improved: identify invalid proxy settings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AnyStream Plus:
- Fix: Amazon Prime batchdownloads not starting
- Change: remove provider queues, when removing the respective provider from the active list
- New: allow selection of individual episodes for batch download
- Improved: persistent queue dimensions
- Improved: download queue finished dialog now allows to open the explorer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.4.4 2021-11-16
Fix: Hulu duration retrieval sometimes failed and caused incorrect header space estimations
Change: provider entries in download queue are now permanently shown (allows to pause a queue before adding titles)
New: reorder queue entries using the mouse
New: add button to show/hide the queue
Change: provider queues are now processed round-robin, if constraints limit the number of concurrent downloads
Fix: queues waiting for available quota will now automatically resume, when tokens become available
Fix: better autoselection of audio streams in successive season downloads
Fix: (attempt to fix, remains to be solidified through testing) Hulu incorrect decryption of some batch downloads
Fix: over-long titles resulted in too long file names
Fix: show names in the queue for Amazon (season name was erroneously being used).
Fix: Missing audio description tracks (Amazon)
many minor changes and fixes
updated languages
1.2.4.3 2021-11-12
Fix: correctly determine write failures (disk full condition and similar)
Fix: Season batch downloads missing subtitles in subsequent episodes
Fix: occasional crashes when downloading from Amazon
a few minor changes and fixes
updated languages
1.2.4.2 2021-11-11
New: AnyStream Plus now has batch download
Fix: Amazon browser text-selection with mouse wasn't working
Improved: video now don't require finalizing anymore
many minor and medium changes and fixes
updated languages
1.2.4.1 2021-11-01
- Hotfix: Netflix login sometimes still didn't work reliably
- updated languages
1.2.4.0 2021-10-30
- Fix: Browser hangs on unavailable episode (Amazon), which lead to a crash when closing AnyStream.
- Fix: possible netflix login failure
- Change: moved Amazon progress bar, so that the browser doesn't constantly resize
1.2.3.1 beta 2021-10-28
- New: HBOMax implementation displays removal dates
- Fix: HBOMax season ordering when seasons are intermittently missing
- Fix: Added the previously missing support for hi-Latn.
- Fix: Audio tracks without linguistic content are now properly identified.
- Change: Amazon browser now properly disables during downloads and loading pages (uses off-screen rendering)
- Improved: remove/disable more "play" buttons in Amazon browser to prevent accidental clicking
- Fix: Implemented additional on-page data processing (Amazon). Episodes that were previously missed (sports show) are now listed properly.
- some minor and medium changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.3.0 2021-10-26
- Fix: could not save to the root directory of a drive
- Change: AnyStream 64bit should now work on Windows 7 64-bit (32bit requirement dropped)
- Improved: extended check for available space befor downloading
- Fix: application could sometimes crash, if profiles were switched while the page was still being loaded
- New: Add My list and continue watching categories to HBOMax view
- Fix: Re-enabled user login state detector. A notification is displayed if a user is not logged in to Amazon/Prime
- Improved: Improved logging.
- Fix: Re-enabled display of full list of episodes when there are more than 25 episodes in a season (Amazon)
- Improved: Improved detection of the free space available on the target storage media.
- Fix (regression): Amazon navigation is no longer possible during Amazon downloads.
Currently as a workaround, displaying a message when navigation is attempted (new browser can
not yet be disabled properly).
- Fixed HBO duration detection
- Improved: A user is presented with error message when a page fails to load (Amazon, sometimes resulted in
just a white screen)
- many minor and medium changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.2.2 2021-09-21
- Fix: Amazon large number of episodes could cause application exception
- Fix: selecting subtitles could cause an application exception under some circumstances
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.2.1 beta 2021-09-20
non-public beta
1.2.2.0 2021-09-15
- Fix: subtitles on Amazon could sometimes fail silently (by chance)
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.1.2 beta 2021-09-15
Improved: HBOMax now detects closed captions vs. subtitles.
Fix (regression): Amazon subtitles did not retain their language codes when written to HDD
Fix: overzealous Amazon HTML-encoded string sanitizer caused some downloads to fail
1.2.1.1 2021-09-14
Fix: downloading the same video twice could cause a broken MP4 file
Change: added literal "(Japan)" to the japanese Disney+ provider, as some confused it with the US/EU version
New: added support for segmented subtitles (HBO)
Fix: HTML-encoded strings are now resolved properly.
some major changes to subtitle handling
updated languages
1.2.1.0 2021-09-09
- Fix: support some more subtitle formats on HBO (segmented subtitles not yet supported)
- updated languages
1.2.0.4 beta 2021-09-08
- Fix: missing language label on Netflix audio
- Fix: downloaded hulu filenames could have incorrect season numbering
- New: allow selection of video codecs, if more than one are available
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.0.3 beta 2021-09-06
- New: provider Disney+ Japan added
- Fix: possible crash when receiving corrupt thumbnail data
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.0.2 beta 2021-09-02
- Fix: Hulu could get stuck on login screen
- Fix: PNG subtitles with identical timestamps (multiple subs at once) broke subtitle display
- New: allow for username and password in proxy settings
- improved: Improved handling of MPD manifests (in accordance to the specifications)
- Improved: the algorithm for fragment size calculation
- some minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.2.0.1 2021-08-21
- Fix: crash when changing the settings with a basic license
1.2.0.0 2021-08-20
- Fix: disable drag & scroll when browser is disabled
- Fix: HBO search re-enabled
- Fix: HBO series with unusual season numbering (6A/6B) supported
- Fix: ordering issue with some series (Seasons not labeled correctly)
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.1.5.0 2021-06-05
- improved: Improved the CDN rotation algorithm.
- fix: reverted to previous Qt framework version due to regression in the Chromium browser
- fix: OpenSSL update update to address occasional SSL handshake errors (need testing and confirmation)
- fix: modification to browser access for Amazon Prime - sometimes failing (need testing and confirmation)
- fix: updated framework to address occasional SSL handshake errors
- many minor changes and fixes
- updated languages
1.1.4.0 2021-05-31
- improved: Added retry mechanism for the download channel setup process.
- improved: Corrected the naming of subtitle files (when saved separately).
- fix: Subtitles for languages with many dialects.
- fix: Error messages contained in the title manifest (Netflix) are conveyed to the user.
- updated languages
1.1.3.1 2021-05-12
- fix: Missing audio languages on Amazon/Prime.
1.1.3.0 2021-05-12
- Fix: Discovery+ episode save path.
- Improved: Audio track language representation and missing audio tracks (Amazon).
- Improved: Basic CDN server switching is now enabled (Amazon & Netflix)
- Fix: Amazon DRM license errors (Prime reducing video quality to SD).
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.2.0 2021-04-21
- Fix: Netflix: adapt to slight protocol changes
- Improved: handling of Discovery+ via Primevideo.
- Fix: Crash on DRM error (Amazon)
- Fix: swap series title and episode title in MP4 meta data
- Fix: sporadic crashes on abort()
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.1.0 2021-04-14
- improved: audio/video alignment in output
- fix: video cutoff at the end of some downloads
- fix: subtitles processing problems
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.0.2 2021-04-05
- fix: Audio/Video track inconsistencies.
- fix: Netflix incorrect video bitrate autoselection.
- fix: SDH (aka CC) Subtitles were not saved.
1.1.0.1 2021-04-04
- fix: crash in 32-bit build when starting Amazon download
- fix: audio/video track cutoffs should be fixed now
- minor fixes and improvements
- updated languages
1.1.0.0 2021-04-01
- New: Disney+: allow pin entry for pin protected profiles
- fix: New lines in subtitles.
- fix: Forced subtitles being overwritten.
- fix: download best Disney+ bitrate profile
- download engine and muxer redesigned
- many minor fixes and improvements
- updated and added several languages
1.0.9.0 2021-01-19
- fix: additional fix for Amazon/Prime properties retrieval.
1.0.8.2 2021-01-19
- fix: incorrect pre-download calculation of available space.
- fix: localization issues.
- fix: Amazon/Prime properties retrieval.
- fix: Hanging on insufficient disk space.
- improved: Proper reporting of unavailable "downloadables".
- improved: A few tiny logging improvements.
- improved: overall interaction with the content of Amazon/Prime page.
- improved: logging.
1.0.8.1
Missing Qt5Xml.dll - fixed. Please re-download 1.0.8.1
1.0.8.0 2021-01-18
- improved: Playlist processing has been completely reworked (Amazon/Prime)
- fix: "Back"/"Forward" buttons (Amazon). Now the buttons are enabled/disabled appropriately.
- Some minor fixes
- Updated and added languages
1.0.7.0 2020-12-30
- Fix: Missing audio tracks for titles where only one audio language is available.
- Fix: Fixed missing audio tracks problem (Netflix), which used to result in AnyStream crashing.
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.6.0 2020-11-04
- Fix: Amazon "PBR retrieval failed" error.
- Improved: added logging
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.5.0 2020-10-28
- Improved: Netflix supports DD+ and higher bitrates.
- Improved: Added option to select the quality of the audio stream.
- Improved: Added automatic retry delays (activated in case of a network error during the download process).
- Improved: Added check for sufficient free space on disk.
- Improved: Added logging to certain Amazon procedures.
- many minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.4.0 2020-10-11
- Fix: Netflix login issue
- Fix: Netflix gateway timeout problem
- Some minor fixes
- Added and updated languages
1.0.3.2 2020-10-11
Fix: Netflix login issue
Fix: Netflix gateway timeout problem
Some minor fixes
Added and updated languages
1.0.3.1 2020-10-02
Fix: a broken frame early (around 10-30s) in most downloaded videos
1.0.3.0 2020-10-02
- Fix: crash when finalizing Amazon downloads with HEVC codec
- Change: temporarily removed HEVC due to quality being worse than AVC will be reintroduced as selectable choice updated languages
1.0.2.0 2020-10-01
- Improved: Changed video codec override from H264 to H265 (allows HEVC video).
- Fix: Added default user agent string to Netflix initialization.
- Fix: display of server-generated messagebox
- New: check for new versions
- Many minor fixes
- Added languages
- known problems (will likely be fixed in upcoming beta, available at https://forum.redfox.bz):
- Netflix login can fail
- Amazon browser crashes when running in a VM or over remote desktop service (opengl-problem)
1.0.1.1 beta 2020-09-29
- fix: registered licenses will allow AnyStream to run in virtual machines
- improved: Added logout option for Netflix.
- improved: Alert is shown when attempting to download titles that are not yet
available on Netflix.
- improved: Added "Show password" checkbox on Netflix login panel.
- fix: Output file name creation mechanism supports Tab (Netflix uses Tabs from time to time).
- fix: Corrected audio track autoselection for Netflix.
- improved: added logging.
- Some minor fixes
- Added languages
1.0.1.0 release candidate 2020-09-18
- Fix: possible crash when mouse cursor leaves netflix item, while data for tooltip is being retrieved.
- Fix: The last subtitle display time was not limited.
- Fix: Netflix UI remains disabled after license related errors.
- Fix: Proper file naming for forced subtitles (SRT/TTML).
- Improved: Episode number alongside the episode name in the downloadables list.
- Improved: "Postprocessing" message should be tied to the main window.
- Improved: Now hiding the "play" buttons on Primevideo to avoid unintentional clicking
- Changed: Prime browser now turns gray when disabled
- Fix: TVShow season is now shown when download configuration dialog is closed.
- Fix: changed language code for Norway from "no" to proper "nb"
- Fix: Empty message on download cancellation.
- Fix: vobsub generation bug (so far not observed)
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
1.0.0.0 release candidate 2020-08-14
- New: allow downloading of forced subtitles
- New: support Full HD on Netflix
- New: show season title in downloadables dialog
- Fix: season ordering for names seasons ("The Sinner" was not ordered chronologically)
- Some minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.4 beta 2020-08-04
- Change: font size for embedded text subtitles now calculated as video-height/30
- Fix: detect failure when creating the output file and abort
- Fix: detect more illegal characters in filenames and replace/remove them
(including TAB)
- Fix: incorrect calculation of filename suffix (subtitle filenames too short and
colliding with each other)
- Change: use "comment" field in subtitle handler to describe subtitle language
(older versions of PowerDVD use this field)
- some minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.3 beta 2020-08-03
- Change: replacements for illegal file name characters changed, so that the
result better retains its semantics
- Fix: possible endless loop when processing a certain atom type
- Changed: path template editor added (allows deletion and modification)
- Fixed some style issues
- some minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.2 beta 2020-08-02
- fix: episode/season numbers are now at least two digits.
- fix: season number was not read correctly for certain Amazon series,
which yielded creation of invalid path.
- updated languages
0.9.4.1 beta 2020-07-31
- new: support 5.1 sound
- new: subtitles optionally stored as .srt, .ttml or embedded into the .mp4
- new: support for image subtitles (only Netflix for RTL languages, like arabic,
hebrew and also Chinese, Thai, ..., stored as embedded vobsub)
Note, that not all players support embedded vobsub
- Fix: support "short film" types
- Fix: verify on overwriting of existing files, whether they are locked
- New: define filename output templates - unfinished, but fully functional
- New: re-open season download box after download (configurable)
- Change: minor styling updates.
- Improved: reduced overall filesize through post-processing
- Fix: windows taskbar progress indicator is back (needed re-implementing for the
double-download feature)
- many minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.4.0 beta 2020-06-08
- Fix: possible crash when saving settings after fresh install
- Possible fix: wait for webengine process to terminate before exiting
(this is just a weak guess on the cause of a few observed crashes
from the Amazon page)
- New: added small progressbar to indicate the load progress for Netflix
- New: added program logo to the pages
- Change: trials are no longer possible in virtual machines
- a few minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.3.6 beta 2020-06-05
- Change: Tabbed view. Amazon and Netflix now run parallel in two tab windows
- Change: -> it is possible to download from Amazon and Netflix in parallel
- Change: AnyStream now starts up with the provider last used
- Change: providers can be deselected in settings
- Change: AnyStream now can only run in one single instance
- Change: Amazon back/forward buttons now enable/disable properly
- Change: several style changes
- Change: download speed control now is a dropdown box (previously: slider)
- Fix: installer wouldn't work in 32bit Windows
- Fix: 64bit version will require at least Windows 8 - malfunctions under Windows 7
- Change: make always saving a log file with every download optiona l (settings)
- New: possibility to create a log file at any time through the menu
- Fix: show Netflix seasons in correct order
- many minor fixes
- Updated languages
0.9.3.5 beta 2020-05-29
- Fix installer: uninstall will from now on also remove the Amazon-Cookie cache
- New: added progress bar when loading Amazon pages
- Change: auto-close Abort-query if download finishes while still open
- Fix: download speed limiter is now correctly initialized to 1x after clean install
- Fix: added qt core translations for three orphaned languages (sv, ms, nl)
- Changed: application style greatly improved
- Improved: application appearance on High DPI monitors
- New: Amazon warning, if not logged in
- Change: Amazon "Downloadables" button makes more noise, is more visible
- Updated languages
- many minor fixes
0.9.3.4 beta 2020-05-18
- Fix: The missing audio languages problem with Amazon is solved.
- Added: Throttle control. The user can select the speed of download.
- Fix: translation of crash dump message
- Fix: Amazon UI not re-enabled upon audio/video license retrieval error.
- Fix: Added audio stream language tag to audio streams downloaded from Netflix.
- Change: pre-select the most likely correct region on first startup
- Fix: Fixed several unicode issues
- Fix: Exiting application during download now asks for confirmation
- Fix: Fixed download abort "hanging".
- Fix: Amazon crash on Abort download.
- Updated languages
- many minor fixes
0.9.3.3 beta 2020-05-13
- New: added Netflix search
- Fix: download causes application to crash, when no subtitles are available
- Fix: Netflix view is now disabled/enabled properly during download
and configuration thereof.
- Improved: Changed download completion messages. Now they are in accordance
with the download completion reason.
- Fix installer: Stop silently renaming all files in use and ask for reboot
- Fix: Netflix browser is re-enabled on license processing error.
- Fix: Netflix profile switching is disabled during content loading.
- Improved: Subtitles files are named after the title
(e.g. <title name language.ttml>
- Improved: Modified tooltip appearance (rich text)
- New: crash dump reporting added
- Fix: Netflix "Request too large" issue should be solved by segmented data
request.
- Improved: Added intensive JS logging (keeping the private info out).
- Change: preferred resolutions are now identified by width instead of height (note:
application needs to re-learn)
- Fix: language names in audio/subtitle selection dialog now always forced to begin upper-case
- Improved: audio-language pre-selection now thoroughly honors country codes alongside language codes
- Change: added "don't show again" to completion message
- New: added option to re-enable suppressed messages in settings
- Improved: expired license message now shows license details
- Change: added "waitcursor" during Netflix load
- Change/Fix: Subtitle selection now disabled when no subtitles available (was previously
possible to "select" the "no subtitles" line)
- Change: stop icon animations when Netflix browser is disabled, e.g. during download.
- Updated languages
- many minor fixes
0.9.3.2 beta 2020-05-04
- change: server protocol. Older versions will no longer work.
- fix: Missing audio languages in Amazon download configuration dialog.
- fix: License error handling corrected.
- improved: Added extensive logging to Netflix login procedure.
- improved: Added file overwrite confirmation dialog.
- improved: enhanced tooltips
- fix: "Concert/Performance" added to the list of supported media types.
- fix: "My List" no longer hangs (Amazon/Prime)
- change: Previous "Home" button renamed to "Close Amazon/Primevideo"
or "Close Netflix" for Amazon and Netflix respectively.
- fix: Netflix UI becomes disabled upon item click and is only enabled
when the download process is canceled or completed.
- improved: Implemented Netflix Content Delivery Network server
selection based on its rank.
- fix: Netflix audio track artifacts.
- fix: Amazon/Prime title information in the Downloadables dialog will show in the language
of Amazon/Prime's UI. This is not related to AnyStream's language settings.
- fix: Output path generation errors.
- improved: Netflix UI (additional scroll areas, tooltips)
- change: add "open folder" button on completion message
- fix: several minor fixes
- updated languages
0.9.3.1 beta 2020-04-27
- change: translators, please be aware: language files renamed from "lang_*.ts" to "las_*.ts"
- change: QtWebEngineProcess placed into JOB object to ensure no orphaned processes
- fix: bug in language preselection.
- fix: localize Netflix configuration audio/subtitle languages strings
- new: Add task bar progress indicator
- improved: switching interface language updates all elements
- new: add search functionality for Netflix (only "on page" - searching on Netflix will be added soon)
- improved: Netflix UI refined
- fix: login request changed to allow special characters in content.
- changed: internal MP4 muxer completely rewritten.
- fix: Incomplete download (omission of last fragment)
- fix: Audio language code copied from source stream (if present)
- fix: A few minor fixes
- updated languages
0.9.3.0 beta 2020-04-10
- fix: made a few strings translatable, that weren't
- improved: pre-selection of audio languages prefer main audio track over descriptive or other.
- changed: allow only to run one instance of AnyStream per Netflix/Amazon
- fix: orientation problem with MPC-HC
- fix: stuttering video with several players
- improved: Amazon download procedure to avoid scattered video/audio artifacts.
- updated languages
- Some minor improvements
0.9.2.9 beta 2020-04-08
- fix: Netflix download hangs at 99%
- fix: made a few strings translatable, that weren't
- fix: resize issue, when changing to Netflix view and then back to Amazon/Netflix selection
- fix: Netflix login page - button sizes, error handling, usability issues
- fix: localization for internal literals applied
- changed: remove option to auto-preselect resolution and languages, configuration dialog
now always shows (with items preselected according to previous selections)
- updated languages
0.9.2.8 beta 2020-04-06
initial beta release